Making a comeback

Award-winning actress Jiang Wenli is back in the spotlight with a role in a Chinese stage adaptation of a Western romantic comedy. Chen Nan reports.

Award-winning Chinese actress Jiang Wenli, best known for her roles in Chen Kaige's film Farewell My Concubine and in the 2004 TV drama Chinese Divorce, will star in Same Time, Next Year, a Chinese adaptation of the 1975 romantic comedy by Canadian playwright Bernard Slade.

Directed by Russian director Yury Yeremin, the play will premiere in Tianjin on Friday and will tour seven cities nationwide, including Beijing, Shenzhen and Xiamen, through September.